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Patent EP-2359768-B1 (EP)
Inventor: COOPER THOMAS G
IPC: A61B19/00
Filed: 2003-12-02
Granted: 2018-10-03
Abstract: A minimally invasive surgical instrument comprising:an elongate shaft having a working end, a proximal end, and a shaft axis between the working end and the proximal end;an end effector;a wrist member having a flexible tube including an axis extending through an interior surrounded by a wall, the wall of the flexible tube including a plurality of lumens oriented generally parallel to the axis of the flexible tube, the wrist member having a proximal portion connected to the working end of the elongate shaft and a distal portion connected to the end effector; anda plurality of actuation cables having distal portions connected to the end effector and extending from the distal portion through the lumens of the wall of the wrist member toward the elongate shaft to proximal portions which are actuatable to bend the wrist member in pitch rotation and yaw rotation.
Patent EP-2542446-B1 (EP)
Inventor: KRAMM LARS
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 2011-02-01
Granted: 2013-11-20
Abstract: In a vehicle seat, in particular a motor vehicle seat, having a seat part, a rest and retaining elements for securing a child seat which is placed on the seat part of the vehicle seat, wherein the child seat can be connected to at least a first retaining element by means of at least one connector in its lower region and can be connected to at least a second retaining element by means of at least one retaining belt in its upper region, and wherein the rest has a rest frame and a cushion which is held by the rest frame, the second retaining element simultaneously supports the cushion.
Patent EP-2477369-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HAFFENDEN OLIVER PAUL
IPC: H04L27/26
Filed: 2008-05-22
Granted: 2013-08-28
Abstract: An OFDM-MIMO radio-frequency transmission system takes the form of a DVB-T system which is modified in that the phases of selected ones of the pilot signal transmissions, particularly the scattered pilots, are chosen or changed at the transmitters such that some of the corresponding pilot signal transmissions from the two (or more) MIMO transmitter stages are in the same phase and others of the transmissions are with relatively-inverted phase. At a receiver the received pilot signals 10 are extracted and combined so as to obtain an indication of the transmission channel characteristics. There are three improvements: (i) any continual pilots on the same carrier as inverted scattered pilots are also inverted in phase, (ii) those scattered pilots on alternate pilot-bearing carriers are phase inverted, even if this means that a given symbol has some inverted and some non-inverted, and (iii) at the receiver the non-inverted and inverted pilots are separated, interpolated in frequency and time, and then both added and subtracted.
Patent EP-0005532-B1 (EP)
Title: Apparatus mounted on a vehicle for recording of accidents
IPC: G08G1/00
Filed: 1979-05-14
Granted: 1982-02-17
Abstract: The invention consists of an apparatus for recording accidental events relating to movable devices such as automotive vehicles, which events can be sensed by optical observation, and comprises: detecting means for receiving the images of the event and transforming them into electric signals; a signal storing circuit comprising one or more analog memories, wherein the recording of successive events is carried out by automatically erasing the oldest image; and sensor means for assuring automatic interruption of the incoming signal flow from the image detecting means to the memories to achieve the automatic nonerasable storage of images corresponding to a predetermined period immediately preceding and contemporary to the accidental event.
Patent EP-0015262-B1 (EP)
IPC: F24H1/22
Filed: 1979-10-09
Granted: 1983-07-13
Abstract: A hot water boiler, particularly for central heating and hot water supply in small dwellings where an economic unit with an output less than about 0.3 megajoule/hr (30,000 but/hr) is required, has a compact cylindrical heat exchanger (110) with central combustion chamber (20) and forced draught. Water circulates through double-pass longitudinal waterways (12) in the monobloc heat exchanger body (111), in crossflow relationship to hot gases forced through short, narrow, annular radial passages (23). One or more walls (22) separating these passages may be replaced by a hollow wall within which water can circulate, increasing the heat exchange surface available.
Patent EP-0016351-B1 (EP)
IPC: G01N27/12
Filed: 1980-02-25
Granted: 1983-05-04
Abstract: A gas sensing unit designed to be protected against explosions and serving for the detection of combustible gases in an atmosphere, containing a gas sensor functioning according to the principle of catalytic oxidation or a semiconductor gas sensor. The gas sensing unit contains, within a housing, at least two mutually separated chambers or spaces. The one chambr is a compression-proof space and contains an electronic evaluation circuit for the gas sensor, the other chamber, which is a space structured to be protected against explosions, contains the gas sensor and a balancing element and is separated from the atmosphere by a sintered metal bushing or sleeve. A third explosion-proof chamber or space can be provided in the gas sensing unit for the purpose of connecting the lines or conductors. The gas sensor together with the balancing adapter forms an assembly or unit which can be pluggably arranged in the cover of the chamber containing the electronic system or hardware. With such type gas sensing unit it is possible to easily exchange the gas sensor at its erection site, without the need for having to open the compression-proof chamber containing the electronic components. The testing and balancing of the gas sensor can be accomplished at the manufacturing plant.
Patent EP-0031735-B1 (EP)
Title: Hydraulic method and device for recovering the energy of a motor test bed in electrical form
IPC: G01M15/00
Filed: 1980-10-16
Granted: 1985-01-09
Abstract: A hydraulic process and apparatus recover energy generated by the testing of a motor in the form of electrical energy. The process includes utilizing a hydraulic pump and an asynchronous electric generator and coupling the shaft of the motor being tested to the hydraulic pump, feeding a plurality of hydraulic motors by the pump in accordance with the feed from the hydraulic pump and coupling the hydraulic motors to the asynchronous generator so that the motors will be capable of operating both as pumps and motors. The device for recovering energy includes a hydraulic volumetric pump, an asynchronous electric generator, and a pressurized oil reservoir connected to the hydraulic pump. The motor being tested is attached to the pump. A plurality of hydraulic motors are connected in parallel with the hydraulic pump and in series with the asynchronous electric generator so that the motors can act both as pumps by feeding themselves and as motors to furnish energy to the asynchronous generator.
Patent EP-0023882-B1 (EP)
Title: Plasmid vectors, plasmids containing genes for alkaline phosphatases and bacteria containing the latter, their preparation and use
IPC: C12N15/00
Filed: 1980-07-28
Granted: 1988-01-20
Abstract: PhoA mutant E. coli SB44, prepared by mutation of E. coli HB101 with an N-nitroso compound, can be used to identify and isolate recombinant plasmids into which a phoA gene has been incorporated. These plasmids can be used to transform bacteria which can be cloned and incubated to provide alkaline phosphatase in high yield. Moreover, these plasmid vectors can be modified in various ways so that the N-terminal amino acid sequence of phoA is followed in reading phase by the DNA coding for some other protein. In turn, these new plasmids can be used to transform bacteria which can be cloned and incubated to produce fusion proteins comprising the desired other protein in high yield and outside of the cell membrane in the periplasmatic space.
Patent EP-0064092-B1 (EP)
IPC: F22B31/00
Filed: 1981-05-09
Granted: 1984-04-11
Abstract: The fluidized bed is situated in a combustion chamber formed from evaporator tubes welded in seal-tight relationship and leading into a gas flue. The combustion chamber is connected to the gas flue via two inclined connecting wall surfaces. Heater tubes bent into an L-shape extend through the fluidized bed. Each shorter limb of the heater tubes extends substantially vertically while the other longer limb extends substantially horizontally. The horizontal limbs pass through a substantially vertical combustion chamber wall at the level of the fluidized bed and the vertical limbs pass through the free surface of the fluidized bed beneath the connecting wall surface. As a result of this arrangement of the heater tubes, the stresses therein due to uneven thermal expansion of the heater tubes remain within permissible limits.
Patent EP-0041295-B1 (EP)
IPC: C07D303/26
Filed: 1981-05-22
Granted: 1984-01-04
Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1-isopropylamino- 3-[4-(2-methoxyethyl)phenoxy]-2-propanol of the formula <CHEM> comprising the reduction of 4-(methoxyethanoyl)phenol to 4-(1-hydroxy-2-methoxyethyl)phenol, which is reacted with methanol or ethanol at acid conditions to the corresponding 4-(1-alkoxy-2-methoxyethyl)-phenol. This compound is reacted with epichlorohydrine to 1,2-epoxy-3-[4-(1-akoxy-2-methoxyethyl)phenoxy]propane, which after reaction with isopropylamine gives 1-isopropylamino-3-[4-(1-alkoxy-2-methoxyethyl)phenoxy]-2-propanol which in the last step is hydrogenated catalytically to a compound of formula (I).
Patent EP-0042738-B1 (EP)
Title: Base support for a tripod tower
IPC: E04H12/34
Filed: 1981-06-19
Granted: 1984-03-07
Abstract: A base support installation for structures such as runway approach light towers to support the latter normally in a vertical orientation while permitting pivotal movement about a horizontal axis at or near the base to provide ground-level access to the upper end thereof. The support installation includes a concrete slab, a pair of brackets anchored to the slab, and a unitary, Y-shaped member pivotally attached at the extremities of two of its arms to the anchored brackets along a common axis. Mounting means for each of the three legs of the tower, or other supported structure, are provided at equally spaced positions on the three arms of the Y-shaped member. No potentially damaging or misaligning stresses are placed on the supported structure as it is moved about the pivotal mounting of the Y-shaped member and remains attached thereto to all three points.
Patent EP-0063195-B1 (EP)
Title: Exhaust gas treatment method and apparatus
IPC: B01D53/00
Filed: 1981-10-15
Granted: 1990-03-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabricating a heat exchanger which comprises the steps of: heat forming (via tool 104) edge portions of holes in a plastic material sheet (101) having a plurality of holes (102) to extend through and line holes in an adjacent metal sheet (43) having holes which concentrically register with respective holes in said plastic sheet (101), thereby to form a plastic-lined metal sheet assembly; inserting plug means (48) in each hole (102) before the plastic lining (101, 103, 105) has cooled to limit diametrical reduction of the plastic-lined holes, spacing a pair of said plastic-lined metal sheet assemblies (101, 43) securedly apart and parallel to each other; and entering an end of a plastic covered tube (48) successively through a plastic-lined hole in each of said plastic-lined metal sheet assemblies (101, 43) sufficiently shortly after removal of the plug means (48) from said holes that the progressive diametrical reduction of said plastic-lined holes allows said end to be entered through said plastic-lined holes but then causes said plastic-lined holes to grip and securedly locate said plastic-covered tube (48). The invention also relates to heat exchanger apparatus, comprising, in combination: a pair of side members (40,41) and a pair of metal end sheets (43) defining a generally rectangular housing, each of said end sheets (43) having a plurality of holes; a pair of plastic sheets (101) covering the inside surfaces of respective ones of said end sheets (43) with portions of said plastic sheets (101) extending through each of said holes (102) in said end sheets (43) to the outside of the end sheets (43); and a plurality of metal tubes (48) having plastics material protective exterior coverings, each of said metal tubes (48) extending through respective holes (102) in both of said end sheets (43) and being mechanically secured in place by the gripping of its exterior plastic covering by the portions (103, 104) of the plastic sheets (101) which extend through the end sheet holes through which the metal tubes (48) extend.
Patent EP-0059875-B1 (EP)
IPC: A61C19/04
Filed: 1982-02-23
Granted: 1985-02-13
Abstract: 1. Gingival test apparatus with variable spring load adjustment, consisting of a housing (1) and a longitudinal spindle (2) located therein, whilst at the end of said spindle (2) emerging from the housing (1) a measuring probe (25) or an angle member (26) for deflecting the force is replaceably fixed, the longitudinal spindle being held by guide elements (3), characterised in that a spring (4) is arranged so as to act axially on a braking system, preferably on brake shoes (15), the braking system engages with the longitudinal spindle (2), a threaded sleeve (10) or locking elements are connected to the spring (4) and a scale (6) gives a visible indication of the spring force and, if required, a cone (29) is provided in an angle member (26) for the deflection of forces.
Patent EP-0066108-B1 (EP)
IPC: C08L33/00
Filed: 1982-05-06
Granted: 1985-04-24
Abstract: 1. Road marking material which is laid on cement concrete surfaces or bituminous carriageway surfaces as a thin-layer marking, comprising an organic binder which is in the form of a solution or dispersion, conventional pigments, fillers and adjuvants, characterised in that 1. the binder is a mixture, 1.1 of a pure acrylic resin and 1.2 a carboxylated styrene/dibutyl fumarate copolymer which respectively occur in the form of an aqueous dispersion, wherein the weight ratio of the solids thereof is in the range of from 1 : 0.2 to 1 : 2.8 and the solids thereof are together from 7 to 41 parts by weight, and wherein the aqueous dispersion of the pure acrylic resin has a minimum film forming temperature (MFT) in the range of from 25 to 55 degrees C and the aqueous dispersion of the carboxylated styrene/dibutyl fumarate copolymer has an MFT in the range of from 4 to 30 degrees C, and the marking material contains 2. from 0 to 9 parts by weight of a conventional plasticiser and 3. from 0.5 to 6 parts by weight of polypropyleneimine, in each case with respect to 100 parts by weight of the marking material.
Patent EP-0082439-B1 (EP)
IPC: B65D25/52
Filed: 1982-12-10
Granted: 1988-10-12
Abstract: 1. Metering closure, for containers for liquid or pourable products, with a cover, which is to be placed onto the container opening, with integrated pouring nipple (10) and a cap (3), which encompasses the cover, with beaker-shaped internal space subdivided by an about axially extending partition (12) into a preliminary metering chamber (13) with the pouring nipple opening therein and an exit chamber (14) opening into an exit opening (15), characterized thereby, that the cover is constructed as a metering trough (4), which projects into the container opening and displays a rim (5), which sealingly encompasses the container opening, with coupling means (6, 7) and an encircling collar (11) for the sealing reception of the metering cap (3) with metering scale (28), and that a bulge (9), from which the pouring nipple (10) goes out, is formed in the rim region of the metering trough (4) for the complete remnant emptying of the container (24), and that the holding capacity of the metering trough (4) is at least as great as that of the preliminary metering chamber (13).
Patent EP-0067744-B1 (EP)
IPC: C01G1/02
Filed: 1982-05-25
Granted: 1984-10-10
Abstract: Processes for the preparation of pure alumina powders or pure non-stoichiometric alumina-magnesia spinel powders starting with ammonium alum-based compositions which are dehydrated, the dehydration being carried out on dehydrated salts having a bulk density less than 0.2 kg/dm3 and wherein the dehydration is followed by a calcination with a heating schedule containing at least one intermediate stage at 750 DEG  to 850 DEG  C., the process of the invention permitting the reproducible production of such aluminas or spinels having specific surfaces of from 100 to 200 m2/g and characterized by a very high homogeneity which guarantees a rigorously unimodal pore structure, such aluminas and spinels being useful in preparing isotopic enrichment barriers for gaseous diffusion, as well as metal polishes, catalysts, and catalyst supports.
Patent EP-0071542-B1 (EP)
IPC: G01B7/28
Filed: 1982-07-30
Granted: 1985-11-13
Abstract: Apparatus for checking the profile of a sheet and comparing measured data with that data from measurement of a standard. The apparatus includes a frame, a plurality of studs on the frame providing three support locations for the sheet, a plurality of reference stops spaced along two adjacent sides of the frame and structure along opposite sides for moving a sheet into a centered position at the stops and measuring structure for measuring the profile of the sheet at a centered position. The sheet may be held at the centered position to immobilize it during measurement and the apparatus may be located along a production line including structure for moving a sheet to the frame and removing the sheet from the frame.
Patent EP-0089448-B1 (EP)
IPC: B65D88/70
Filed: 1982-03-23
Granted: 1987-09-09
Abstract: The invention employs a hopper with intermediate cylindrical band for connection between the upper stationary part (2) and the underlying one (3) held by the former by means of suspension pivots (4). The mobile part is equipped with an electrical vibrator (5) and the driving organs are foreseen centrally grouped and covered with a conical plate (6) fitted with nozzles (7) of insufflation through which air jets get out fluidifying the product at the silo base in order to further its descent through a circular crown opening (11) foreseen between the plate border and the hopper body, towards the discharge mouth.
Patent EP-0105249-B1 (EP)
Title: Appareil pour le traitement d'un materiau particulaire
IPC: B65G53/36
Filed: 1982-04-13
Granted: 1986-07-30
Abstract: Dispositif de traitement d'un matériau particulaire en vrac possédant un récipient sous pression (10) pourvu d'un orifice d'entrée principale pouvant être fermé hermétiquement (12). Un organe de fluidisation sur le fond du récipient (10) comprend une chambre de plénum (14) définie par une plaque perforée (16) recouverte d'une membrane perméable au gaz (18). De l'air à haute pression est introduit au travers de l'orifice d'admission (20) et l'air fluidifie le matériau lorsque la ligne de sortie (22) est ouverte. Le récipient sous pression (10) est entouré d'un récipient de stockage (30) dont la section transversale peut être carrée ou rectangulaire et qui ne doit pas nécessairement pouvoir supporter des pressions élevées. Le récipient de stockage (30) possède un orifice d'entrée principale (32) et une chambre de plénum (34) définie par une plaque perforée (36) recouverte d'une membrane (38). Une ligne de transfert (50) relie le récipient de stockage (30) au récipient sous pression (10) de sorte que celui-ci peut être déchargé d'une manière conventionnelle. Par l'utilisation d'une faible différence de pression entre les récipients de stockage et sous pression, le récipient sous pression (10) peut être rempli à partir du récipient de stockage (30) au travers de la ligne de transfert (50).
Patent EP-0087654-B1 (EP)
IPC: C07D209/28
Filed: 1983-02-12
Granted: 1986-04-30
Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of the known 1-(4-chlorobenzoyl)-5-methoxy-2-methyl-3-indoleacetoxyacetic acid which comprises reacting an indolecarboxylic acid of Formula (II) or its derivative with an alcohol of Formula (III). The final product is known to have antiinflammatory activity.
Patent EP-0098926-B1 (EP)
IPC: C21C5/34
Filed: 1983-04-25
Granted: 1986-02-05
Abstract: In the process for making steel from scrap, in each converter cycle following the charging of scrap, an amount of hot metal charge originating from a preceding converter cycle is charged over the scrap. The total charge is melted down through the introduction of fuel and oxygen via sub bath or submerged inlet tuyeres. The molten tap is tapped either into two storage vessels, in repetition cycles, and used as a hot metal charge during two subsequent charges, or the tap is added for subsequent processing, in production cycles, particularly for a casting operation wherein finish-refining is effected prior to the tapping.
Patent EP-0098481-B1 (EP)
Title: Method for generating electric power in a combined power plant with fluidised bed combustion
IPC: F01K23/06
Filed: 1983-06-24
Granted: 1987-09-16
Abstract: 1. Method for generating electrical energy and heat energy using a gasturbine/steam power station equipped with a fluidised bed firing system (10), in which air is compressed, heated in a heat exchanger (22) located in the fluidised bed firing system (10), expanded in a gas turbine (30) driving the compressor (26), giving up the surplus energy to an electrical generator (38), and is supplied in total as combustion air to the fluidised bed firing system (10), in which steam is generated using the heat energy released in the fluidised bed firing system and is supplied to a steam turbine driving a second electrical generator (54), and in which the combustion gases are supplied, after the heat rejection serving to generate the steam, to an exhaust gas heat exchanger (74) for further cooling, characterized in that the steam is generated in an unfired and separate exhaust heat boiler (44) fitted downstream on the combustion gas side of the fluidised bed firing system (10) and is supplied to the steam turbine designed as a back pressure steam turbine (52), that a hot water heater (64) provided in a heating circuit is subjected to the steam extracted from the back pressure steam turbine (52), and that hot water with an adjustable hot water mass flow flows through the exhaust gas heat exchanger (74), connected in parallel with the hot water heater (64) and subject to combustion gas within the exhaust heat boiler (44).